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EFSA - BSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has said British plans to scrap its upper 30-month age limit for exportable cattle would require the retention of tough auxiliary measures to prevent the spread of BSE. These would include removing specified risk material and feed control rules.…
EU STANDARDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Reference Materials (ERM®) seal has been launched, based on a quality assurance system that could help detect genetically modified organisms in food, guaranteeing lines are GM-free for instance.…
WTO ROUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has confirmed it will put all agricultural export subsidies on the table at the ongoing WTO Doha Development Round. Renewed discussions at Geneva have started making slow but steady progress.…
BEEF LABELLING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is examining whether the existing beef labelling system identifying relevant slaughterhouses and farms, should be reformed to enable beef to be stamped ‘made in the EU’. Currently, countries of origin are named, causing some “re-nationalisation” of Europe’s beef trade.…
BULGARIA DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have been asked to approve granting Bulgaria duty free access to the EU market for a range of food products from this year onwards. These include animal fats, oils, meat-stuffed pasta, broths and many others.…
BRITISH SUGAR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH Sugar has lost a final appeal at the European Court of Justice against a Euro 39.6 million fine imposed by the European Commission over allegations of illegal concerted practice and agreements over sugar prices with rivals Tate & Lyle and Napier Brown between 1986 and 1990.…
PESTICIDE RESIDUES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved in principle a proposed regulation empowering the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to set EU-wide maximum levels for pesticide residues on foodstuffs.…
FOOD HYGEINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have defied expectations and approved a food hygiene package, accepting European Parliament amendments to a meat regulation allowing public officials to inspect the slaughter of pigs and veal calves, a job the European Commission would have allowed abattoirs to undertake.…
ENLARGEMENT - BYRNE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 10 EASTERN and southern European countries joining the EU on May 1 are “on course” to meeting its food health standards, Brussels’ health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has claimed. This masked problems however: temporary exemptions have given the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia between an additional three months and three years to ensure milk producers, slaughterhouses and food processing plants meet standards that should already have been in place.…
PROTECTED FOODSTUFFS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added two products to the EU’s protected geographical indications list: Rincón de Soto pears, of Spain, and France’s Brioche Vendéenne.…